Vicente Rojo

Vicente Rojo Lluch (8 October 1894-15 June 1966) was Chief of the General Staff of the Spanish Republican Army from October 1936 to March 1939 during the Spanish Civil War.

Biography
Vicente Rojo Lluch was born on 8 October 1894 in Valencia, Spain. Rojo was given a military education and served in the Rif War with a group of regulars in Ceuta, and in February 1936 he was promoted to Major-General. Although he was an ultra-Catholic and a member of the Union Militar Espanola, he decided to side with Republican Spain and helped in organizing the Spanish Republican Army. In October 1936, Rojo became Chief of the General Staff of the Republican Army, and he was in command of the Republican forces at the desperate Battle of the Ebro in 1938. In February 1939 he moved to France as the government was losing the Spanish Civil War, and he taught as a professor at the military school of Bolivia from 1943 to 1956. In 1957, he returned to Spain after the Bishop of Cochabamba - a former military chaplain under Rojo - intervened on his behalf and negotiated his return home. He died in Madrid in 1966.